Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURI believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
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The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support – not imperious direction – the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
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